big city user guide

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Table of Contents

1. Theme installation and activation .................................................................................................... 2

a. Importing Theme Options................................................................................................................. 2

2. Theme Options................................................................................................................................. 3

3. Menus.............................................................................................................................................. 4

4. Page Templates ............................................................................................................................... 5

5. Sliders .............................................................................................................................................. 6

6. Sidebars ........................................................................................................................................... 8

7. Custom header................................................................................................................................. 9

8. Fancy Box......................................................................................................................................... 9

9. Shortcodes ..................................................................................................................................... 10

10. Portfolio......................................................................................................................................... 12

11. Contact form.................................................................................................................................. 13

Tips and Troubleshooting ...................................................................................................................... 15

Updating Theme to a new version ..................................................................................................... 15

Solving errors: ................................................................................................................................... 15


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Thank you so much for purchasing our theme. Although it is easy to use, please read our tutorial to set

up your new website properly with all available features. This tutorial will guide you through most

important elements of our theme.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS PLEASE VISIT OUR SUPPORT FORUM AT:

http://forum.mnkystudio.com/

1. Theme installation and activation

Automatic installation

1. Download ZIP package from Themeforest and unzip it.2. In unzipped folder you will find bigcity.zipfile. Do not unzip it one more time.3. In your Wordpress Dashboard navigate toAppearance > Themes.4. Click on Install Themes, click Upload and browse the bigcity.zip file and click Install Now.5. After installation is complete click onActivate Theme. Theme is now installed.

Manual Installation

1. Download ZIP package from Themeforest and unzip it.2. In unzipped folder you will find bigcity.zipfile. Unzip it one more time.3. Simply put unzipped theme folder into your wp-content/themes directory.

a. Importing Theme OptionsTo enable all theme options you will have to import option data files.

1. In your Dashboard locate Big Citysection and click on Settings.2. Now select Import.3. First upload Theme Options XML. Click upload and locate bigcity-options.xmlfile in Theme

Options folder in your downloaded package. Then click Import XML.

4. If you want to upload Theme Options Data (these are options as in live preview) open Theme-Options_data.txtfile and copy all the content into Theme Options Data field and click Import

Data.

*Please refer to Blog Slider section to make blog page work correctly.
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2. Theme OptionsBigCity Theme comes with extensive options panel. You can access Theme Options in your Wordpress

Dashboard by clicking on Big City.

We have written comments for every setting in the panel itself, just open the panel and you will find

what each setting if for and how to change it.


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3. MenusBigCity Theme has Wordpress Menus enabled, that means you can easily control what appears in

menus.

To create menus for your navigation follow these steps:

1. In your Wordpress Dashboard navigate toAppearance > Menus.2. To create new menu enter a name for it and click Create Menu.3. Now select pages you want to appear in menu and clickAdd to Menu.4. Now when the pages are added to your menu drag them to change order as you like; to create

sub menu just drag menu item slightly to the right and Wordpress will place it as sub menu.

5. When ready click Save Menu.6. Select your menu in Theme Locations dropdown and click Save.


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4. Page TemplatesThis theme has nine built-in templates. You can choose from available templates provided with this

theme.

Available page templates:

I. Default full width page with no headerII. Full width+ Header full width page with header

III. Left sidebar+ Header page with left sidebar and headerIV. Right sidebar+ Header page with left sidebar and headerV. Left sidebar page with left sidebar and no header

VI. Right sidebar page with right sidebar and no headerVII. Portfolio custom portfolio page

VIII. Contacts page with integrated Google maps and right sidebarSpecial layout:

Blog blog page with sidebar and post slider

Choosing a template:

1. In your Edit Page section under Page Attributes in Template dropdown choose a template youneed.

2. Now Update your page and template will be applied.


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5.SlidersHomepage slider

Pages with header by default have slider enabled unless you choose custom header image. If you do not

want to have a slider simply choose template without header. To create your slideshow do the

following:

1. In your Dashboard find Header Sliderand click on it.2. Now you have slider panel open where to upload Custom Images and choose Slider Settings and

Usage Settings.

3. Play around with settings to create your desired slideshow. (and see pagination-icons folder ifyou need png pagination icons)

Important: Please make sure you have entered required settings for your slider:

1. Under Usage Settings select Enable to activate plug-in.


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6.SidebarsIn this Theme you can define any sidebar you want to be displayed on any page. By default all pages

with sidebar will have widgets you placed on that sidebar, i.e. if you have chosen page with sidebar it

will have widgets you placed into Primary Widget Area in Widgets section.

1. To define custom sidebar in your Edit Page section under Custom Sidebarpanel checkActivateCustom Sidebarand choose which sidebar you would like to replace.

2. When you do so a new sidebar for your page will be created in theAppearance>Widgets.3. New sidebar will have the name of the page where it was created.

4. Just drag and drop widgets to your new sidebar or leave it empty, as you like.


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7. Custom headerIn BigCity Theme you have the ability to choose custom header for every page where you have chosen

template with header.

1. In you page edit section under text field locate Custom Header Image panel.

2. Click choose file and upload your header image.3. Click Insert into post.4. Update your page and now you will have your custom header image set.

8. Fancy BoxTo make your images pop up in a fancy box and not just in new window use integrated Fancy Box.

1. In your Dashboard under Settings tab click on Media.2. Scroll down to FancyBoxsection.3. Enable media types you want to be Fancy box active on and choose your settings.4. Press Save Changes.


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9.ShortcodesTo make your work with content easy use available set of shortcodes.

1. In Page on Post edit panel click on the icon shown below.

2. The menu will appear, select shortcode from dropdown list and click Insert.

3. Selected shortcode will be inserted into page. Now enter your content into the shrotcode.For options and usage examples go to Settings>Shortcodes.

Parameters show what options can be applied to each shortcode. And Usage shows how can they be

applied.


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Lets look at the button shortcode. Available parameters are:

link

color="#HEX"

size="1-12"

style="1|2|3|4"

dark (optional)

square (optional)

icon (optional)

So if we include all parameters it will look like this:

[button link="#" color="#b00" size="3" style="3" dark="1" square="1" icon="image.png"] Button text

[/button]

For darkand square1 means true and 0 means false, so if you want round button use square=0or

delete these parameter.

Here is button with round corners, white text and without icon:

[button link="#" color="#b00" size="3" style="3"] Button text [/button]

Or here is just grey button without any parameters defined:

[button] Button text [/button]

Note: Shortcodes can be used inside one another.

Lets say for example you want to insert quote inside a box, then it should look like this:

[box title="Box title" color="#f00"] [quote] Hello [/quote] [/box]


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10. PortfolioBigCity theme has special portfolio template and separate controls for your portfolio items. To set it up

follow this steps:

1. In your page edit section under Page Attributes select Portfolio.2. Now you have to create your portfolio. In Dashboard find Portfolio section.3. Go to Service type and create new category e.g. Print works.4. Now got toAdd Newand add your portfolio item. Featured image will be used for preview in

portfolio.

5. Now create your portfolio by adding items, thats it.


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11. Contact formBigCity theme comes with built-in contact form that can be easily added to any post or page.

1. In your page or post edit page click on theAdd custom form icon.

2. In the form builder add, remove and choose field types.


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3. Open Email notification tab and enter e-mail address where messages will be sent to.

4. Also there is Messages section in the Dashboard where all your messages will be saved. If youleft Enter your email address field blank, messages will be stored in this sections. If email

address is present messages will be both sent to your email and stored in this section.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR PUCHASING OUR THEME! IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS

PLEASE VISIT OUR SUPPORT FORUM AT:http://forum.mnkystudio.com/
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Tips and Troubleshooting

Updating Theme to a new version

1. Go to Appearance => Themes on our WP dashboard.2. Activate Twenty Ten theme (one that comes with WP installation).3. Delete old version of the BigCity Theme.4. Click "Install Themes" on the top tabs. Select "upload" and choose your new theme and click

"install now".

5. After installation is finished, Activate your themeYou are done!

Solving errors:

1. WHAT DO I DO,I INSTALL THE THEME AND GET THESE ERRORS:Warning: fopen(/home/ab92292/public_html/wp-content/themes/Big-

City_WordPress_Theme_1.1/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in

/home/ab92292/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4339

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/ab92292/public_html/wp-

includes/functions.php on line 4342

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/ab92292/public_html/wp-

includes/functions.php on line 4345

Please refer to Theme installation and activation in this user manual and be sure to unzip downloaded

folder and import bigcity.zip file not the whole download.

2. DRAG AND DROP IN WIDGET MENU IS NOT WORKING:It is possible javascript is disabled in your browser, check it out first.

If not try this:

1. Try disabling all your plugins and see if it works, if yes, then determine which plugin causes the

problem.

2. You can tryTHISplugin to use Google Ajax library API rather then using from Wordpress intallation.
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3. WHAT DOES IT MEAN,I INSTALL THE THEME AND GET THESE ERRORS:Parse error: syntax error, unexpected &, expecting T_VARIABLE or $ in

/www/htdocs/w00748cc/brett/wp-content/themes/bigcity/option-tree/functions/get-option-tree.php

on line 73

wp-content/themes/bigcity/option-tree/classes/class.admin.php on line 12

It means that your server is running older then required PHP version, but usually it is easy to solve.

If you are not sure send your provider a message and ask about your version or just send them following

WP 3.2. update message:

Hi there. I host my domain [example.com] with you, and I run W ordPress on my

site. The minimum requirements are changing to PHP 5 .2.4 and MySQL 5.0, and I

would appreciate your help in confirming that my sites setup meets these

requirements. If Im currently running an older version of PHP or MySQL, could

you update it for me, or tell me how to do it? Thanks s o much!

4. I CANNOT IMPORT THEME OPTIONS:That means you are importing wrong file, be sure to upload bigcity-options.xml.

5. READ MORE OR/AND IMAGES ARE NOT SHOWING IN RECENT POST SLIDER:To make read more button appear please set Excerpt Words value. Images are taken from post featured

image, so to make them show up you should insert them as featured image.

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